Greenland is a city in Washington County, Arkansas, with a population of 1,806. The total cost of housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, taxes, and other necessities for a single ...

In 1979, Ridley Scott taught us a truth so obvious in retrospect as to feel almost universal: in space, no one can hear you scream. That was the tagline for the science fiction classic Alien, ...

WASHINGTON – More than a dozen animals live longer than we do. A new study estimates that at least one Greenland shark lived about 392 years, making it the longest-living animal with a backbone. Here ...

Greenland sharks are the longest-living vertebrate species on the planet. One study found that they could live nearly 400 years. These Arctic sharks can reach lengths of up to 24 feet and can weigh ...

Albeit slow and sluggish, the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) is currently the world's longest-living vertebrate, a new study suggests. In fact, these very characteristics contribute to the ...

There are plenty of animals on Earth that are pretty good at sticking around. Elephants can live into their 80s, the world's oldest tortoise survived until around 250, and bowhead whales can reach the ...

Danish scientists believe they've discovered the oldest living vertebrate: a Greenland shark lurking in the frigid North Atlantic and Arctic waters that could be up to 512 years old, according to the ...

Greenland sharks, living in the cold, deep waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans, are one of the largest sharks in the world — they can grow up to seven meters in length. Now, scientists have ...

WASHINGTON — In the cold waters of the Arctic, a denizen of the deep lurked for centuries. Now scientists calculate that this female Greenland shark was the Earth’s oldest living animal with a ...